Listen Up! "P" is for Piccolo

The word piccolo means small in Italian, but the piccolo is called an ottavino there - go figure. It's a half-sized flute and a member of the woodwinds.Mozart used a piccolo in his opera Idomeneo, and they were seen as early as 1735 in some Parisian opera orchestras. Once made from wood, glass, or ivory, today piccolos are generally manufactured out of brass, silver, or resin.Here's the piccolo starring in John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKKg9zv9k4